In resilience-based frameworks, optimizing the repair strategy and approaches is important for the recovery of the function of gas network systems (GNS) and water network systems (WNS). According to the resilience quantification results of GNS and WNS for a real example urban city in China, the potential impact of utilizing different repair sequences and repair/replacement approaches was investigated. First, a Monte Carlo simulation-based method was proposed to search for the optimal repair sequence according to the skew of the recovery trajectory (SRT). Under high seismic intensity conditions, the significant difference between the repair sequence corresponding to maximum SRT and minimum SRT indicates that choosing the optimal repair sequence is important in the enhancement of repair efficiency, especially when the pipelines have experienced serious damage. We also discussed the parallel repair strategy, which is more consistent with the practice, and can greatly improve the recovery efficiency compared with the single pipeline repair strategy under large damage conditions; however, under minor damage levels, the parallel repair strategy may result in a certain degree of redundancy. Next, three different repair approaches were thoroughly compared, including the point-by-point repair approach, whole pipeline replacement, and hybrid repair approach. At the condition of high seismic intensity (e.g., macroseismic intensity IX), the resilience curves for the hybrid repair approach and the pipeline replacement approach are overall similar and take less time and economic cost than the point-by-point repair approach. However, when the seismic intensity is low, the point-by-point repair approach is most efficient and has the shortest recovery time. Therefore, the choice of repair approach should be determined by stakeholders based on the specific pipeline’s damage situation. Finally, we calculated the joint resilience curves by allocating different weight factors to GNS and WNS, to represent the proportion of water and gas supply that contributes to community resilience.
A stable and accurate finite-difference discretization of first-order elastic wave equations is derived in this work. To simplify the origin and proof of the formulas, a symmetric matrix form (SMF) for elastic wave equations is presented. The curve domain is discretized using summation-by-parts (SBP) operators, and the boundary conditions are weakly enforced using the simultaneous-approximation-term (SAT) technique, which gave rise to a provably stable high-order SBP-SAT method via the energy method. In addition, SMF can be extended to wave equations of different types (SH wave and P-SV wave) and dimensions, which can simplify the boundary derivation process and improve its applicability. Application of this approximation can divide the domain into a multiblock context for calculation, and the interface boundary conditions of blocks can also be used to simulate cracks and other structures. Several numerical simulation examples, including actual elevation within the area of Lushan, China, are presented, which verifies the viability of the framework present in this paper. The applicability of simulating elastic wave propagation and the application potential in the seismic numerical simulation of this method are also revealed.
In this paper, we present a stable and accurate high-order methodology for the symmetric matrix form (SMF) of the elastic wave equation. We use an accurate high-order upwind finite difference method to define spatial discretization. Then, an efficient complex frequency-shifted (CFS) unsplit multi-axis perfectly matched layer (MPML) is implemented using the auxiliary differential equation (ADE) that is used to build higher-order time schemes for elastodynamics in the unbounded curve domain. It is derived to be compatible with SMF. The SMF framework has a general form of a hyperbolic partial differential equation (PDE) that can be expanded to different dimensions (2D, 3D) or different wave modal (SH, P-SV) without requiring significant modifications owing to a simplified process of derivation and programming. Subsequently, an energy analysis on the framework combined with initial boundary value problems is conducted, and the stability analysis can be extended to a semi-discrete approximation similarly. Thus, we propose a semi-discrete approximation based on ADE CFS-MPML in which the curve domain is discretized using the upwind summation-by-parts (SBP) operators, and where the boundary conditions are enforced weakly using the simultaneous approximation terms (SAT). The proposed method’s robustness and adequacy are illustrated by conducting several numerical simulations.
1 January 2023 in International Journal of Technology Management
Chinese Spelling Checking (CSC) is a task to detect and correct spelling errors in Chinese text, which is important for natural language processing applications. Previous works on CSC have used pre-trained language models and multimodal information to improve the performance. However, most existing CSC models do not fully exploit the rich context knowledge contained in context, nor do they emphasize the role of semantic information for text error correction. In this paper, we propose a semantic-driven multimodal CSC model that can learn the heterogeneous knowledge of speech, vision and meaning from context. Our model consists of three encoders: a semantic encoder, a phonetic encoder, and a graphic encoder. To emphasize the role of semantics in text correction, we feed the output of the semantic encoder to both the phonetic encoder and the graphic encoder, along with the original input. The outputs of the three encoders are fused by an attention mechanism and decoded by a transformer model to generate the spell-check results. We evaluate our model on SIGHAN benchmark datasets. The experimental results show that our model outperforms the state-of-the-art methods on these datasets, especially on correcting long sentences with errors. We also conduct ablation studies and qualitative analysis to show the effectiveness of our model components and the semantic-driven mechanism.
The long-term prestress relaxation of soil anchors embedded in saturated clay is a critical issue affecting the safety of geotechnical structures such as slopes and foundation pits. Traditional integer-order constitutive models are often unable to accurately describe the nonlinear and time-dependent relaxation behavior observed in such anchorage systems. Based on fractional calculus theory, this study establishes a constitutive model for the coupled stress relaxation behavior of soil anchors and saturated clay. The Riemann–Liouville fractional derivative and the two-parameter Mittag-Leffler function are introduced to represent the material memory effect and continuous relaxation characteristics. To achieve reliable parameter identification, a hybrid optimization strategy combining the Adaptive Hybrid Differential Evolution (AHDE) algorithm and the Levenberg–Marquardt (L-M) method is proposed. The proposed model and identification approach are validated using field monitoring data from soil anchors in a slope engineering project at the Guangxi Friendship Pass Port. The results show that the proposed model can accurately reproduce the entire stress relaxation process, with a coefficient of determination of R2 = 0.9517. Parameter sensitivity analysis further clarifies the influence of key parameters, including the fractional order and viscosity coefficient. The proposed approach provides a systematic theoretical framework and practical reference for the analysis and prediction of long-term prestress relaxation in soil anchorage systems.